US Authorities Discover New Virus 'Bourbon'

A virus discovered by the US health authorities might be responsible for the death of a healthy man in Kansas last year. The virus - named "Bourbon" after the county where the victim lived - is part of a group of viruses known as thogotovirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement. It is the first time a virus from the family has caused a human fatality in the United States, and only the eighth known case of a thogotovirus causing ...